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For Brown-Skin Girls
by Sharon Harvey Rosenberg
This is for all the brown-skin girls
drowning in tears from blue-eyed dreams
buried under pillows seeded
with wallflower nightmares
blooming like thorns
around the crown
of nappy hair.
This is for all the brown-skin girls
whipped by fantasies of long blond hair
tossed over a shoulder like the blade of a knife
cutting the stems
of nappy hair flowers
neglected like weeds
in a vacated lot.
This is for all the brown-skin girls
lost between the pages of
glossy magazine covers
where black typeface
is printed on perforated solicitations
tossed away with junk mail.
No.
In these cut-lines for brown-skin girls,
The text is rewritten
and photos are reframed
with portraits of
nappy-hair girls smiling
under boldface type:
Featuring and Including
Brown-skin Cover Girls
On the Table of Contents.
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